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Ozarks at Large

A Search... and Rescue... That Captured Attention Beyond Arkansas

By Kyle Kellams
Published May 1, 2023 at 11:35 AM CDT

22 years ago today 6-year-old Haley Zega was found after being lost in Newton County wildnerness for more than two-and-a-half days. Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, takes us back to the search and resuce with archives from the Pryor Center and with interviews from today.

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